I noticed this morning while driving into work something that peaked my interest. As I pulled onto the highway (which was backed up) there is a long merge lane. I go with the philosophy in traffic that is slowed to take the merge lane until its time to merge. This maximizes what I have always known to be the zipper effect.
Today, a trucker was blocking the merge lane. (Lukcily I was right in front). He was ruining the merge. I’m not sure if he was angry at cars trickling past home or had some pent up frustration with traffic but I know it was ruining the zipper effect.
I watched him. He did it on the next merge and then the next.
What drives people to block regular traffic patterns? It’s not like anyone was breaking the rules?
I think people need to relax a little more and realize that getting one car ahead in heavy traffic won’t make or break your day.
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February 21st, 2007 at 2:30 am
Just testing out a new theme so that comments are working.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 am
I applaud the trucker. Nothing worse then people cruising right past the people who took the time to merge early. The point of merge is what causes the traffic. If people took the time to merge before the “forced” merge, everything goes faster as there is not a struggle at the last minute. Waiting until the last minute is never a good strategy for decison making – there is usuanlly only one choice.